{\i Let them be} as a snail which melteth and passeth away,\par\tab {\i Like} the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,\par\tab As infants that never saw light.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.\par
I should have been as though I had not been;\par\tab I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.